Oscar Lopez (Madrid, 1973), director of the Cabinet of Pedro Sanchez since 2021, he told me five months ago now, on February 13, 2023, that the political year would be very hard. That the 10 months that remained for the end of the legislature, on horseback of the European presidency, would mean a fierce battle. Before saying goodbye in his office in La Moncloa, he told me a phrase whose frankness still resonates with me: “We cannot do more. In this country the trompe l’oeil has been installed that the president gets up every morning, looks in the mirror and He tells himself what he can do during the day to destroy Spain a little more. And we can’t undo it. If it’s about helping Yolanda Diaz, that is, to the left of the PSOE, to unify this entire sector by agreeing with Unidas Podemos, we will support it. Hopefully I get it. But that’s all.”
This Monday, June 26, with political time extraordinarily compressed after the municipal and regional elections on May 28 with the call for general elections on June 23, 2023, López believes that the journey of Pedro Sanchez started in ‘Lo de Évole’ last Sunday, with an audience of 1,345,000 viewers or 12%, is a good start, before embarking on the march towards the right-wing media.
Don’t talk about what’s important
“A powerful trompe l’oeil has been set up -as we have already discussed- not to mention pensions, the increase in the minimum wage or the Iberian exception in terms of electricity. It is very good that people see that the president shows his face, that is not hiding. There is a party here and we are going to give it. No media is dismissing it. I am happy with how the pre-campaign is going. The PP folds to Vox without complexes and does not hide the chaos of its policy against the extreme right, ” he said from his office in La Moncloa in a conversation with this chronicler. And wouldn’t these explanations have given better results with more time, let’s say two months and after the summer, for example, in September? “That’s enough for a meal and a long talk, but I am convinced that we did the right thing, we went out to win, things have to be earned, we have to deserve them, we don’t have to hide, we are going to show our faces, within the difficulties we are doing the right thing”, answers López.
“Everyone talks about the PSOE, almost no one about Sumar, it seems devastating to me. The campaigns of both do not seem mobilizing to me. There is very little time emotionally for a change in the direct vote compared to May 28. Can it recover in a month from now? People are thinking about vacations, they watch less television and the low participation is bad for the left,” he says. Gloria Elizo (Madrid, 1966) former third vice president of the Congress of Deputies. “Perhaps it is because of my activity in the last three and a half years in Congress, but I see with real concern the fact that Vox politicians have taken over the presidency of various parliaments. It is like a perverse fact. Because it seems that the public they do not realize what this implies institutionally. Because we have already lived these years with their anti-democratic speeches. And they are becoming the highest representation in various parliaments, that is, they are the ones who embody the popular will, democracy”, emphasizes. elizo He also believes that September could have been a good date to give the explanations that he has now undertaken Pedro Sanchez. “So many interviews, one after the other wears you out. Nor is it that you can say very different things. They lose attractiveness & rdquor ;, she points out. “On the other hand, after the summer it would have been more reasonable.”
Complexed
A leader of the PSOE, defeated electorally, according to what he says, due to “other people’s causes & rdquor ;, namely, national politics and the” trompe l’oeil & rdquor; of sanchismo, he reasons that what he is doing now Pedro Sanchez it is what should have been done in the last six months. And if there was awareness that this was lacking, the electoral anticipation could have consisted of dissolving the Cortes and calling elections for the end of September. “The host of 28-M has been tremendous. And now is when issues such as Bildu begin to be explained, having given reason with silence to those who attacked. We had a complex,” he points out. A handover of power? “In a way it was a delivery.
The hostile media have been allowed to run rampant in hate speech and demonization, without giving an answer until now when they have swept us away.” The Popular Party boasts of internal polls that grant an absolute majority to the PP along with Vox. expectation of Alberto Núñez Feijóo and his court circle points to a possible PP government alone, as a result of obtaining 140/145 seats, another 30/35 for Vox, turning out to be the third force, ahead of Sumar with 20/25 seats. The idea is that Vox could support a government of Feijóo.
The effects of the PP-Vox alliance, against all expectations, are felt like daily bombs. No one will be able to say on June 23 that they had no idea of the tsunami that was coming in Spain. What is happening in Extremadura, for example, is symptomatic of the PP’s lack of complexes. Maria Guardiola he has had to sheathe his sword after brandishing it against Vox and has paid his respects. The first is the national PP; The first thing is Feijóo, he has come to say in his letter to the militants in which he has abjured his attack on Abascal’s party.
Agree with Vox without complexes
“The PP does not show any modesty. And it should not necessarily be so. The PP could negotiate with Vox in certain communities and not in others. That is, to wield a very open electoral line, but what happens in Extremadura is that they do not have complexes “Whoever does not make the pact to govern faces the National PP. Perhaps they have surveys that tell them that these pacts have no electoral cost. I am going to govern in all of Spain and with Vox. And nothing happens”, he observes elizo.
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Feijóo has a standing policy since the first PP-Vox coalition government in Castilla y León, supported by him in March 2022 and consists of maintaining the orientation of unity to govern with Vox in most of the country before addressing the issue of La Moncloa, now anticipated the result of July 23. With this unity, he aspires to propel the tsunami of 28-M on 23-J, reinforce the mobilization of the right, and along the way make the PP make the useful vote profitable, at the expense of Vox.
Well, that: go for the 140/145 seats with the votes of Ciudadanos and a part from Vox. Of course: with Vox as the third force, with 30/35 seats.